[Lazarus] I need TTimer (or equivalent) in a CLI program.

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Donald Ziesig wrote:

> On 07/20/2016 05:04 PM, Donald Ziesig wrote:
>> I am writing a command line program that will be started as root from 
>> /etc/init.d.  (Raspberry PI that will not be connected to the internet.)
>>
>> This program requires TTimer, which seems to be a part of LCL and 
>> gives me missing units at compile time.
>>
>> To try to get around LCL, I derived a timer from TCustomTimer. 
>> Unfortunately, this pulls in TWidgetSet (also part of LCL but without 
>> the missing units) and I get run time error 211 since TWidgetSet is 
>> abstract.
>>
>> Is there any timer-like component available without bringing in LCL?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Don Ziesig
>>
>>
> OOPS,  I forgot to mention,  I found TFPTimer, but it does not implement 
> the OnTimerStart and OnTimerStop events which I need as well.  Now that 
> I am thinking about it, perhaps I can derive something from that that 
> implements those event callbacks.

A patch for this will certainly be accepted.

Michael.